Best Very Important Person Poems

Lost and Found

My name is Daniel. For 70 years--from age 14 to age 84--
I was incomplete, bereft of mother, father, my identical
twin brother Joshua, and all my boyhood friends who were
with me that day in 1944. 

Some of the stronger men had strained and struggled
to...

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Historically
What did I see when I look in the mirror at me?
Reminding me of what I didn’t want to see
Critical and self loathing –frustration of me
Never loving anything that I saw within me
Or attempting to analyse how I could change the view I see
I focused...

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My lover comes to me from dusk until dawn
You may see him on his black horse 15 hands high
Loves me very much, just as I do him, something I would never deny
Over, and over I play it my mind, all of the we times share
Very...

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Hey lady, memaw. Boy do I have a lot of questions for you. Questions like what's your favorite color? Who's your favorite band? I know you love your rock music. I know you liked Freddy Mercury. Now i have questions like, How do you navigate...

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Phone Rings


One day in my apartment
As tired as a mouse
Try to get some peace and quiet
I plug the phone out

Pick up the clothes
Wash the dishes then
Clear the bed and mop the floor
Phone rings

Get the phone and plug to wall
Lift up receiver, answer call; oh what...

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Ordinary man in Africa
deals in magic, herbs, soothsaying
Very important person
deals in guns, bombs, wars
who is greater in destruction?

Ordinary man in Africa talks
proverbs, riddles, poetry, sagas
Very important person talks
English, French, Arabic, Chinese
Who’s more African?

Ordinary man in Africa eats
from nature- water, jungles, gardens
Very important person eats
from the...

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CONFIDENCE

              A ctually you do not care for me.
              B ut I have no problem you see.
  ...

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Mother is the first very important person
On earth who real knows my importance 
To her and continue praying for me daily. 
Her passion and  love towards me are very
Exceptional from I was born  till now.  
Right person to be proud of on earth is my...

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I AM A VIP TOO
THIS MEANS A {VERY IMPORTANT PERSON} AS WELL
I DO TELL
A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL ONE
MANY GIFTS AND TALENTS
THE PASSIONS FOR HELPING OTHERS
A MOTHER
A HOME-MAKER
A CARE-TAKER
A JANITOR
 A MAID
A TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER
A COOK OR A CHEF
SPECIAL IN ALL TYPES OF WAYS
A SINGER 
A MOTIVATOR
A GIVER
A...

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Whether you agree or not, I am a very important person, or if you prefer, "thing".                             ...

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Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting

Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady

holds Earthling (yours truly)
in precarious emotional balance
me silently screaming
against ill fated physiological disorder
also upending prospective
employment ambitions (parttime).

Qualification to acquire said voucher
(essentially to help...

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My heart was tore, 
I didn’t care anymore.
That is until he found me,
For once I felt like a very important person.

I found my farmboy,
He is my pride and joy.
He would go the extra mile, 
Just to see me smile.

I used to always feel really crappy.
Farmboy...

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Fortunate, favored, and blessed.

Ancestors and descendants abound,

Making you a very important person.

Inheritance and true wealth fill your life.

Love surrounds your past and your future.

You are never alone, because you truly belong.

081524PS...

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Free to be.

Free from me, the in-a-me, the fugazi me, the me that I LET you see, the she that I thought you wanted me to be, the me that I thought you wanted to see, the me I thought I needed to be for...

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